An autistic person cannot take them for granted. They are always in some way present. We also have some boundaries which others don’t, and their unwitting (or deliberate?) breaching by others can feel like violation of one’s self (which is how I sometimes experience my wife Kim's attempts to reason/explain something to me).

Is there a feeling of being dragged across boundaries? Of forced participation, and denial of the legitimacy of one’s own boundaries or interfaces (which suggests further research into the nature of these).

Where do the boundaries occur? What about those within an individual, regarding conscience, the attracting of attention, conditioning, etc.?

Boundaries may be constructed of scar tissue.

And so pervasive insecurity manifests as desperate rigidity. Exceptions can lead to incomprehensibility; the fight is to keep things simple enough to understand. The point at which things become incomprehensible varies from person to person (and situationally for any given person), so the location of definitional boundaries may be anywhere from dead-on literalness to typical-appearing flexibility to utter inability to understand or acknowledge a definition at all. Rejection is always an option.

Last revised: June 20, 2007
(c)2007 Dave Spicer
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